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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My feet are killing me, my clothes are a mess, my hands look like I’ve been digging around under the hood of somebody’s beat up hoo-ride, I have a gash from trying to open a plastic art supply box and I’m down a dollar for FOUR SHEETS OF PAPER. kajdkjashdjkahdakjhd HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THIS CLASS

And all the instructor does is talk. ALL DAY. FOR EVER. THROUGH THE ENTIRE FUCKING LAB. OMG. SHUT THE HELL UP. LET US DRAW. SRSLY. SHUT. UP.

And he’s got these fucking ASS KISSERS who are taking this class for like the third fucking semester in a fucking row. HEY! WTF. I know, community college is hilariously inexpensive and everything, but $60 + materials is still $60 PLUS MATERIALS. I know if I had a random extra $120 + DOUBLE MATERIALS, my ass would not be spending it listening to some aging psuedo hippie with an inferiority complex whine for THREE HOURS AND TEN MINUTES twice a fucking week, when I could be, you know, getting my ass out of lower division college courses. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH EVERYBODY GTFO.

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I have to write a short story involving 10 items from a list we compiled in class about a different decade. That’s the entire assignment.

WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT??

We brainstormed the 90s and the 70s. wut. I asked if it was okay to do the 80s, but I’m thinking I might have to turn around and go back to the 90s again, because apparently I cared more about current events then than I did in the 80s. To me, the 80s are about bellbottoms and Vietnam and the British Invasion and Star Trek. You know, the 1960s? I’m so fucked…

I thought about writing about a party girl, but I don’t think I can do that. I came up with the idea because of my uncle, whose death was directly related to the amount of partying he did in the 80s, but, um, yeah. Can’t go there just yet, for obvious reasons.

All I can really think is how most of my fiction has fuck all to do with time period (unless the time period itself is an actual character) and that using 10 items from my list is going to sound like really horrible namedropping. The best part about this assignment is that it comes on the heels of discussing the concept of “significant detail”, or the idea that nothing in the short story should be tossed in just because. The mention of something like a book title has a meaning specific to the story being told. I already know this, I know how to do it, and it’s one of the main reasons I tend to leave out references to time period. The stories I prefer to tell should be able to move to a different time, because what was true a millennia ago is true now: don’t kill people for no reason, stealing is bad, love is good, gotta have food and water for survival. If any of these things changes in the next thousand years, the change will have more to do with the cessation of the human species than any basic attitude adjustment. Making the time period a significant part of the story, especially such a recent and (honestly) insignificant portion of time, is just asking for badfic. Original badfic. This is going to blow monkey chunks, man.

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wekrjwlejrwlkejrwer H8 SCHOOL

I don’t think I can take 15 weeks of Tuesdays and Thursdays. D: Not if both instructors are going to be mush mouthed gumflappers with zero concept of STFU.

I have a test on Thursday. A test on how to draw a FACE. A TEST.

DO NOT WANT D: D: D:

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You guys, srsly. Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. So a lot of you would comment to the feeds instead of to the wordpress, which I can understand, since the feeds are on LJ. But LJ doesn’t have a way (that I’ve been able to find) to track the comments of an entire syndicated journal, which means those comments are never emailed to us, hence us taking 92879827498274 years to respond.

I do believe I found an elegant solution in this plugin, which lets me crosspost to MY LJ, and gives y’all an actual comment link to follow. Woo. So, happy new year, and I do believe I’m back. Backish.

I’m still not a happy LJ customer, but I’m being passive aggressive about it: I’ve switched back to a free account, so I can use their stuff without helping them pay for it. And I refuse to click through anything. I know, it’s probably costing them like a penny to have to put up with me, but dammit, it’s the principle of the thing.

So, how’s it going, bbs?

ETA: Uh, if you’re watching the feed, btw, it’s going to still post there, so you might want to stop watching it now.  It’s become redundant.  :p